Let the men to whom honor is due—those who have worked under difficult circumstances, who have built up our institutions, who have been used of God as minutemen to advance His work— be honored. God is dishonored by those men who by word or letter slight the men whom He has chosen to do His work. Any disparagement of these men, God holds as a disparagement to Christ.—MS 52 1898 (May 1) PCL 205.1